Sentences with phrase «u.s. national field»

Sisters Kristi and Kelli Gannon were members of the U.S. national field hockey team.

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As the House debated its legislation, starting in June, they had to do so without first fielding testimony from the U.S. government's leading transportation watchdog, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Psychological operations, according to a field manual produced by the U.S. Army, involve the «planned use of propaganda and other psychological actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of hostile foreign groups in such a way as to support the achievement of [U.S.] national objectives.
To kick - start its research on microgravity beer, Budweiser is partnering with experts in the field, including CASIS * who manages the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, and Space Tango, a payload development company that operates two commercial research facilities within the National Lab.
Success continued with wins in both the 200m and 800m at the 2007 U.S. Paralympics Track & Field National Championships and then in 2008 at Beijing, where she won four medals in the five events in which she competed.
However, according to Pete Cava, spokesman for The Athletics Congress, the U.S. governing body for track and field, the top eight finishers in each event at the national championships in June received a three - page memo listing the five categories of banned substances and noting that testing would be done at all major summer meets, including the Pan Am Games, with a special warning against usage of «eye drops, nose drops or cold remedies.»
Capes is exceptionally good, however, as U.S. track and field fans first learned two weeks ago at the National Invitational meet in College Park, Md., where he defeated Al Feuerbach.
In September, he was the best player on the field in the U.S.'s 4 - 0 World Cup qualifying win against Trinidad and Tobago, his first national team start.
Alabama defensive back Tony Brown will run the 100 - meter dash at the United States Track & Field Outdoor Championships this weekend with an opportunity to earn a spot on the U.S. national team.
Note that if you're running for elected office in the U.S., the national parties are developing and fielding systems to put voter information in the hands of their candidates at all levels.
U.S. Rep. John Katko speaks at a Purple Heart ceremony in January at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Mattydale.
NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General of the United States Loretta E. Lynch, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey, Federal Bureau of Investigation («FBI») Director James B. Comey, Assistant Director - in - Charge William Sweeney of the FBI New York Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Timothy Gallagher of the FBI Newark Field Office and Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York («NYPD») James O'Neill announced that Ahmad Khan Rahami, a / k / a «Ahmad Rahimi,» has been charged in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, for conducting and attempting to conduct bombings in New York City and various locations in New Jersey on September 17, 2016, and September 18, 2016.
Fortunately, he recently won U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funding that will allow him to take students into the field this summer to study sprites associated with lightning storms.
The National Nanotechnology Initiative is a great example of cross-agency cooperation working toward shared goals and priorities that has allowed the U.S. to gain global leadership in the field.
The National Science Foundation — sponsored network, called the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, will link 20 field stations selected to provide data from 20 distinct U.S. biomes as well as 40 portable stations that can be moved from site to site.
Bio-Link is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is designed to improve and expand educational programs that prepare skilled technicians to work in high - tech fields in the U.S.
The novice and seasoned geologists from the University of Rochester have gone out with the eye trackers about four times a day over their two - week field trip across California, which took them from San Francisco by the San Andreas Fault through the snowy Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park to the harshest area of the U.S. «Death Valley is a great place, where one can really see active geology firsthand — forces that are shaping the crust of the earth,» says geophysicist John A. Tarduno, another of the Rochester scientists.
- The U.S. National Science Foundation's report on The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field
U.S. graduate students in the agricultural sciences are more likely than those in other fields to carry out interdisciplinary research, according to a first - ever analysis of the issue by the National Science Foundation.
The U.S. - based National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, affiliated with AAAS, provides information and support for LGBT scientists in all fields of research.
The report estimates that the U.S. government poured some $ 430 million into the field between 2005 and 2010, mainly through the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
A relative unknown in national policy circles, Suresh is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and maintains a productive research group in the emerging field of nanobiomenational policy circles, Suresh is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and maintains a productive research group in the emerging field of nanobiomeNational Academy of Engineering and maintains a productive research group in the emerging field of nanobiomechanics.
That $ 90 million study, financed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), startled many in the field who, based on other failures of nonspecific microbicides, had predicted the product would do nothing.
That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.
Located in a Moscow suburb that former President Dmitry Medvedev envisions as the country's Silicon Valley, Skolkovo Tech represents the sort of academic green field that Edward Seidel was seeking as he wound down his 4 - year stint at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
Nearly all off the centers surveyed have also volunteered to participate in a U.S. Highly Infectious Disease Network to continue to advance this field through peer review and consensus efforts to further develop the national capacity for high - level isolation care.
A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.
A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.
Field data used in the study were obtained with the support from the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, a DOE national user facility; the DOE Atmospheric Sciences Program; the National Research Council of Canada; and Environmentnational user facility; the DOE Atmospheric Sciences Program; the National Research Council of Canada; and EnvironmentNational Research Council of Canada; and Environment Canada.
France Córdova is an astrophysicist and the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the only U.S. government agency charged with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory conduct groundbreaking research in a wide variety of fields to address the nation's scientific challenges.
The ARM Facility experimented with deploying UAS at Oliktok Point last year during Arctic Shield 2015, a field campaign conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Conoco Phillips.
He has received several awards, including the 1994 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas, Austin; the University of California, Berkeley, «National Public Health Hero» award; the Jan J. Kellermann Memorial Award for distinguished contribution in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention from the International Academy of Cardiology; a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association; the inaugural «Lifetime Achievement Award» from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; the Beckmann Medal from the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Diseases; a U.S. Surgeon General Citation; the «Pioneer in Integrative Medicine» award from California Pacific Medical Center; the Stanley Wallach Lectureship Award from the American College of Nutrition; the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement; the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine; the Glenn Foundation Award for Research; the Bravewell Collaborative Pioneer of Integrative Medicine award; and the Sheila Kar Health Foundation Humanitarian Award from Cedars - Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles); the Plantrician Project Luminary Award.
He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.
They're doing it at a time of political change and policy uncertainty at the national level, with a new team taking the field at the White House — and at the U.S. Department of Education — that may have its own ideas about how details of the new law play out on the ground.
The report by the National Center for Improving Science Education, a research «mini-center» funded by the U.S. Education Department, calls for a bigger role by the government in conducting research on needed science knowledge and skills, developing new forms of assessment in the field, and training science educators.
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education is a national priority, aimed at making U.S. students more proficient in these key fields.
Arriving at common ground in one of the most fractious fields in education, a group of educators and public officials has developed a draft framework for the 1994 National Assessment of Educational Progress test in U.S. history.
Presumably Landesman recognizes that school teachers identify the NEA as the National Education Association, rather than the National Endowment for the Arts, and that as chairman he can have much greater impact advocating for arts education with the White House, Congress, and U.S. Department of Education than he will through direct work with the arts education field.
As a leader in the fields of systems thinking and organizational learning, she has presented Systems Thinking in Schools work and research findings extensively to national and international education and business audiences that span the globe across the U.S., China, Singapore, the Philippines, India, the Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Prior to her role at CEP, Ferguson served as the Vice President for Policy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, Director of the National School Boards Foundation, Director of Field Operations for New American Schools, and director of Communication and Outreach Services for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education during the Clinton Administration.
During the 2017 Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals — NHRA's largest event — more than 25 percent of the Stock Eliminator field was composed of COPO Camaro race cars, with many claiming class wins.
You can probably qualify for the U.S. National Track and Field team from all of the running you do to keep up with them.
National Park Service Golden Gate National Recreation Area Media Advisory: COMPLETELY RESTORED WARMING HUT REOPENS FOLLOWING FIRE LAST WINTER WHAT: The Warming Hut Café, Park Store & Visitor Information Center is open WHEN: Reopened, Monday, December 3, 2007; open daily 9 am to 5 pm WHERE: West Bluffs, Crissy Field, Golden Gate National Parks, San Francisco, CA HISTORY: The historic 1909 wood frame two - story structure was originally built as an U.S. Engineer Storehouse.
The National Register of Historic Places listed Burro Flats Painted Cave is located within the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, on a portion of the site owned by the U.S. Government.
Located off I - 694 and I - 94, the Country Inn & Suites ® by Radisson, Brooklyn Center, MN puts you less than 10 miles from the National Sports Center and near U.S. Bank Stadium, Target Field, Target Center and Brooklyn Center sites.
He has covered 30 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 13 World Figure Skating Championships, 12 World Track and Field Championships, two Pan American Games and more than two dozen other national championships in Olympic sports.
Dallas and Fort Worth, of course, have had their share of recent coups, from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's exclusive U.S. presentation of the Lucien Freud retrospective to the Nasher Sculpture Center's beautiful presentation of the traveling Ken Price survey to the Dallas Museum of Art's announcement that it's landed the long - term loan of the Keir Collection, one of the world's largest private collections of Islamic art — instantly transforming the DMA into a national powerhouse in the field.
The Alliance of Artists Communities is the national and international service organization for the field of artists» communities, colonies, and residency programs, representing over 500 organizations in the U.S. and 1,000 worldwide.
The primary sources of the post-1972 data are the hemispheric fields of sea - ice concentration from (1) the U.S. National Ice Center (NIC), whose weekly grids (derived primarily from satellite data) span the period 1972 - 1994, and (2) the satellite passive - microwave grids from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) / Special Sensor Microwave / Imager (SSM / I) period, 1978 - 97 (Parkinson and others, 1999).
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